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Top 25 Payments Angel Investors in Colombia in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 25 angel investors that invest in Payments startups based in Colombia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Colombia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Payments Angel Investors in Colombia in January 2025

Investor	Payments Colombia investments
Jeff Carter	1
Peter Stroeve	1
Carolina Garcia	1
Cornelius Boersch	1
Blake Irving	1
Paul Bragiel	1
Martin Schrimpff	1
Jose Jair Bonilla	1
Man Hei Lou	1
Oscar Sarria Guerrero	1
Don Stockwell	1
Sujay Tyle	1
Sep Kamvar	1
Burak Buyukdemir	1
Ricardo Weder	1
Sebastian Ruales	1
Gerry Giacoman Colyer	1
Emlyn Scott	1
Caterine Castillo Ceballos	1
Maria Echeverri Gomez	1
Enrique Villamarin Lafaurie	1
Chris Sang	1
Sebastian Delgado	1
Saurabh Gupta	1
Simon Borrero	1

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Jeff Carter

Investment focus

FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Human Resources
Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Glim — At Glim believe that crypto will revolutionize the financial service industry and that Latin America is a perfect place for that disruption to start. Glim has created a platform that, through a B2B2C model, will allow employers to offer very valuable financial benefits such as multi-currency salary collection, yield generation, a debit card withautomatic exchange and settlement in fiat and crypto currency, financial education and others, all available in Glim’s mobile app.

With a passion for living in such a way that positively impacts the future, Peter Stroeve serves an intricate role as the big-picture thinker at Velocity Partners. Responsible for the overall management, strategy and performance of the company, he places a strong emphasis on delivering excellent customer service, recruiting the best talent andconstantly exceeding customer expectations.Peter's love of travel was born early when he toured through Europe as a choir boy singing in the world's most famous cathedrals. Today, he still finds himself globetrotting as he plays a hands-on role in Velocity's Nearshore operations in Argentina and Uruguay.Prior to founding Velocity Partners Peter started ProDX, a consulting organization in Portland, Ore. that he led to being Oregon's #1 Best Place to Work in 2001. He has worked in the high-tech industry since 1985 and holds a bachelor's degree in systems analysis from Linfield College.

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

Glim — At Glim believe that crypto will revolutionize the financial service industry and that Latin America is a perfect place for that disruption to start. Glim has created a platform that, through a B2B2C model, will allow employers to offer very valuable financial benefits such as multi-currency salary collection, yield generation, a debit card withautomatic exchange and settlement in fiat and crypto currency, financial education and others, all available in Glim’s mobile app.

Carolina Garcia is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Chiper.

Investment focus

Software, Restaurants, Food Delivery
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

CLUVI — Cluvi digitalize the sales channels of restaurants and turn their data into a potential tool to increase their sales
QuantPi — QuantPi creates automated and scalable solutions for AI model explainability and robustness auditing.
zulu — zulu is a cross-border payments paytech that was founded in 2021 in Colombia by Esteban Villegas, the current CEO, and Julián Delgado, who serves as the CTO. The company is approaching its first US$100 million processed from over 400 clients and already has connections with more than 50 countries worldwide.

Cornelius Boersch

Investment focus

Mobile, FinTech, Mobile Payments
Series A
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Tpaga — Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems.

In January of 2013 Blake Irving joined back-office administration and peer/community support.Prior to Go Daddy, Mr. Irving was EVP and Chief Product Officer at Before Yahoo!, Mr. Irving spent 15 years at Other accomplishments at Microsoft include: • Launching the first version of in-house advertising system (ad-expert), sponsored IAB ad standards and enabled growth of Microsoft advertising revenue to $1.3 billion.• Developing and launching MSN Messenger, surpassing AOL, ICQ, and Yahoo in growth rate; later becoming the market leader with more than 300 million users and more than 70% global share. • Integrating Hotmail into MSN, managing growth and ensuring a re-architecture of the service to manage growth. (Messenger growth from 0 to 18 million users and Hotmail growth from 7 million to 290 million users).Mr. Irving started his career in 1981 at Xerox. He has been at the forefront of innovation, having been involved in numerous products and services that are now staples of the internet, including typography, communications on the personal computer, subscription services and back-end online advertising. From 2009 to 2010, he was a professor in the MBA program at Pepperdine University. Mr. Irving is a graduate of San Diego State and received an MBA degree from Pepperdine University. He currently resides in San Luis Obispo, CA.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Valiu — Valiu is a fintech company that provides borderless financial services to all Venezuelans. It has created a mobile application that allows access to a convenient dollar savings and transfer system for any migrant or family member, regardless of their socioeconomic status or the range of their phone. The company was co-founded by Simon Chamorroand Alberto Niego in 2018.
Dondo — Elevate your e-commerce with Dondo's AI-driven tool. Automate listing creation, scoring, and deployment across channels.

Paul Bragiel is the Managing Partner of Bragiel Brothers. He previously worked at the United Republic of Tanzania as an Advisor. Paul Bragiel attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Investment focus

Gaming, B2B, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Japan, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Coodesh — Hiring coders is a pain in the ass for traditional HR. Save time and money by tracking the best coders with a complete Tech Recruitment Platform that evaluates coders to connect with your company. We provide on the platform a set of tools for talent acquisition, interview priority algorithm, behavioral mapping, and different ways to techchallenges.
inSTREAMLY — inSTREAMLY is an automated streamer management platform which brings brands and streamers together. Using micro-sponsorships, streamers are able to monetise their content lowkey, while giving brands an opportunity to connect with Generation Z in an innovative way. It's SaaS branch: Streamcoi is aimed for esports organizations, MCN's,agencies and tournament organizers.
Condofy — Condofy is ready to serve you from essential and recurring services to other types of specific services, should the need arise. Being that all services are guaranteed by our team and always supported by our own platform and processes of excellence in service. Services included: Collection, Collection, Payments, Calculation and collection of taxes,Accounting, Payroll, Legal, Virtual Assembly and Face-to-face, among others.

Martin currently works as the co-founder and CEO of Kocomo. He used to worked for PayU as founder and head of global sales.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Colombia, Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Zinobe — Zinobe has operated in Colombia since 2012 and develops online financial products for the consumer and small business sectors. The company is focused on using technology to provide the highest level of customer experience and has developed a data centric credit model to help target underserved markets in Colombia. Zinobe is backed by firms such asQED Investors, a U.S. based venture capital firm specializing in disruptive financial services companies in the U.S., U.K. and Latin America. For more information, please visit www.zinobe.com, www.lineru.com.
Atrato — Atrato is a leading buy now pay later company for omnichannel merchants in Mexico
Grin Scooters — Grin Scooters is a software company that operates network of operational shared electric scooters. Currently, Grin only operates in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Sao Paulo and Bogota but it has plans to expand to other cities throughout Latin America.

Jose Jair Bonilla is the Co-Founder and CEO of Chiper.

Investment focus

B2B, Energy, Cooking
Pre-Seed
Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Wizzer — Wizzer is an AI-driven parenting copilot that provides guidance through highly personalized multi-modal conversations.
zulu — zulu is a cross-border payments paytech that was founded in 2021 in Colombia by Esteban Villegas, the current CEO, and Julián Delgado, who serves as the CTO. The company is approaching its first US$100 million processed from over 400 clients and already has connections with more than 50 countries worldwide.
Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.

Man Hei Lou is the Co-Founder at Treinta

Investment focus

B2B, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Pandas — B2B e-commerce platform connecting Asia with the +10 million of Latin America small merchants
zulu — zulu is a cross-border payments paytech that was founded in 2021 in Colombia by Esteban Villegas, the current CEO, and Julián Delgado, who serves as the CTO. The company is approaching its first US$100 million processed from over 400 clients and already has connections with more than 50 countries worldwide.

Entrepeneur, industrial Engineer, co-founder and currently COO at Chiper. I've worked in the mass consumer sector and digital projects management with an emphasis on strategy, design, and development. I am passionate about enhancing consumer’s experience and generating value for society through technology.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

zulu — zulu is a cross-border payments paytech that was founded in 2021 in Colombia by Esteban Villegas, the current CEO, and Julián Delgado, who serves as the CTO. The company is approaching its first US$100 million processed from over 400 clients and already has connections with more than 50 countries worldwide.

Don Stockwell serves as Global Marketing Specialist at Costa Vida Presenta.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency
Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Blumer — Blumer is a social networking platform that provides social networks that can monetize time by consuming advertisements, selling nfts, and making crypto transactions. It offers social networks, crypto, digital marketing, and blockchain.

Sujay is the 26-year old CEO and Co-Founder of Frontier Car Group (FCG), a Berlin-based, emerging markets-focused automotive marketplace. Sujay co-founded the business at the age of 23. FCG has now raised $575M+ from Naspers, Balderton, and TPG Growth. Prior, Sujay was a partner at Kingsway Capital, a London-based emerging-markets focused fund.Sujay was on the founding team of Hired.com (a talent marketplace) as its COO, which now operates in Australia, Europe, and the US. Before Hired, Sujay entered Harvard at age 15, before leaving with a Thiel Fellowship. Sujay was named one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 and one of Goldman Sachs’ top 100 intriguing entrepreneurs in 2016 and 2018.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Colombia, Mexico, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Pandas — B2B e-commerce platform connecting Asia with the +10 million of Latin America small merchants
Unaric — Our mission is to help Salesforce customers maximise their investment on the Salesforce platform through an integrated suite of applications. Explore our application suites across Revenue Operations, Service Operations and System Administration.
Vetalia — Vetalia offers a variety of services specifically geared toward dogs, reimagining access to the veterinarian experience. Vetalia helps to maximize quality of pets life.

Sep Kamvar is a consulting professor of Computational Mathematics at Stanford University. His research focuses on social computing and information management. From 2003 to 2007, Sep was the engineering lead of personalization at Google. Prior to Google, he was co-founder and CEO of Kaltix, a personalized search company that was acquired byGoogle in 2003. Sep is the author of two books and over 40 technical publications and patents in the fields of search and social computing. He is on the technical advisory boards of several companies, including Etsy, NextBio, and SimplyHired. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the National Museum of Contempary Art in Athens.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Simpol — We make Simpol to everyone in LATAM buy, hold and sell stable coins and access to DeFi benefits to get better yielding than traditional financial system.
Shalder — Shalder is a flexible work community, allowing businesses across LATAM access the workforce they need, on-demand, to achieve their business goals. No bidding, prize competition, powered by IA.
Contribution Labs — DeForm is token-gated forms and surveys for sign ups, allowlists, DAO governance, and other web3 marketing activities. Trusted by ENS, Alchemy, Optimism, CityDAO, Mintplex, and other blockchain projects.

Burak Buyukdemir is the founder at Etohum.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Bitcoin
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, India, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

VAMA — VAMA is a one-stop virtual platform that provides easy access to e-pujas, e-darshans, and astrology services, to devotees from across India and the world.
El Dorado — El Dorado is a P2P marketplace that helps to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, money transfers, foreign exchange, and digital wallet services.
CARÁ Health — CARÁ Health is creating a hybrid health and well-being platform for women throughout any stage of maternity to make them feel empowered and make informed choices. We do this by combining all verticals a woman needs (and does not yet knows she needs) during the maternity period, including education, products, podcasts, masterclasses, and servicerecommendations.

Ricardo Weder is the co-founder and CEO of Jüsto. Prior to co-founding Jüsto, he served as the president of Cabify. Ricardo holds an MBA from Mannheim Business School.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Mexico, Chile, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.
Welbe Care — We're transforming access to primary health care in Mexico by providing companies access to prevention and information on the health and well-being of their employees while providing quality primary care at an affordable cost to their employees and their families.We leverage technology with an innovative business model to provide laboratorystudies, physical examination checkups, medical consultations with our medical team composed of preventive general medicine and nutrition, we also give them access to our network of specialist doctors, clinics, and laboratories.

Sebastian is Co-Founder and CEO of Bia.Energy, company aiming to empower LatAm with cheap, sustainable and smart energy, through a consumer centric technology platform.He is founding team member of LatAm´s SuperApp Rappi -YC 16’, Sequoia, SoftBank, DST, T.RowePrice - Where he built from scratch and developed the Monetization model of the company,Business Development and New Businesses. He additionally served as an independent consultant to several StartUps in the region, advising on product and commercial strategy. He is advisor to 8VC, Managing Partner and Co-founder of Opera Ventures, and VP of MatterScale Ventures. He is also Speaker -Including TEDTalks. Prior to tech and VC, he had marketing and commercial strategy roles in the CPG industry, where he worked for L´Oreal, Quala and Johnson & Johnson.Sebastian has an MBA from Tulane University and an EP from Singularity University.

Investment focus

Information Services, FinTech, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Colombia, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Latú Seguros — We are a start-up focused on providing business insurance, on a mission to empower business owners to change the world.
Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.
Grupo Central — Grupo Central is a pioneers in Chile in the development of the Dark Kitchens and Dark Stores model.

Business strategist and product guy oriented towards growth and finance. At my core, I'm a liberal arts grad who thought about going into public service, but then fell in love with the potential for technology-driven companies to make our lives better.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Mexico, Chile, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.

Emlyn is a successful founder and investor with personal investments in fast growing tech companies like Kami, A.Kin, MealMe, Segna, and EnsuredIt. Managing Partner at CP Ventures and the founder of OpenMarkets Group, Australia's second-largest retail broker. He was former CEO of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, Australia’s secondlargest listing stock exchange, for four and a half years. Prior to that he was Head of Business Development at LCH.Clearnet for equities and CFDs in London for nine years, the world’s largest independent clearing house. He has four finance related degrees: Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Masters Business Administration (MBA), Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment (GDAFI), and Bachelor of Economics (BEc).

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
Tpaga — Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems.
Fiable — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service

10+ years of experience in Fintech, consulting, and entrepreneurial ventures. Before joining Neivor She held positions as Country Manager at InComm, Chief Growth Officer at Movii, and Global Chief Product Officer at NovoPayment Inc Business administrator with an MBA from Carleton University in Canada and studies at Columbia Business School. She aforward-looking initiator, energetic and decisive leader

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

zulu — zulu is a cross-border payments paytech that was founded in 2021 in Colombia by Esteban Villegas, the current CEO, and Julián Delgado, who serves as the CTO. The company is approaching its first US$100 million processed from over 400 clients and already has connections with more than 50 countries worldwide.

Maria Echeverri Gomez is the Founder at Muni Tienda. She attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Security
Seed, Series A
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Truora — Connect with your users via WhatsApp Optimize your onboarding process using WhatsApp.
Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.

Enrique Villamarin Lafaurie is the Co-Founder and CEO at TUL.

Investment focus

B2B, Beauty, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Morado — Morado. is the next generation B2B marketplace for beauty shops.
Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.

Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

Fiable — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
Cloobot Inc — Cloobot X: Your Premier Software Implementation transforms your vision into reality with our state-of-the-art software implementation studio. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, our expert team delivers rapid, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to your unique business needs.
Tokenise — Tokenise acts as a data layer for web3 projects and their tokens. We help founders build their tokens simply, mint/launch their tokens on-chain and then manage their tokens in one place. Tokenise enables founders to curate rich data rooms that make it easier for investors to get onboard. We empower community with unprecedented insights andaccessibility into their favourite projects and their tokens.

Sebastian Delgado Cofounder at Fei Protocol

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

El Dorado — El Dorado is a P2P marketplace that helps to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, money transfers, foreign exchange, and digital wallet services.
Syndicate — Infrastructure for powerful web3 products at scale

Saurabh Gupta is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at DST Global.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
Series C, Series D, Seed
United States, India, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Repool — Repool is the leading hedge fund launch, administration, and investor experience platform for emerging managers. Learn more.
Connectly.ai — Our easy-to-use tools promote meaningful 2-way conversations in the channels your customers use the most. Businesses of all sizes can deliver personalized, automated alerts and notifications, simplifying how you find new customers, sell your products & services, and manage the myriad tasks associated with the customer experience.
Checkmate — Never miss a deal.

Simón Borrero is a Co-Founder & CEO at Rappi. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Colombia, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
Wizzer — Wizzer is an AI-driven parenting copilot that provides guidance through highly personalized multi-modal conversations.
Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.

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